Lori Beer is the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) of JPMorganChase and a member of the company's Operating Committee, responsible for the firm's technology systems and infrastructure worldwide. Beer manages a $17 billion budget and more than 63,000 technologists supporting JPMorganChase's retail, wholesale and asset and wealth management businesses. She also serves as the sponsor of the firm's Women on the Move Business Resource Group.
Beer joined the firm in 2014 and was most recently the Chief Information Officer for the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). Prior to joining the firm, she was Executive Vice President of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc., responsible for a $10 billion business unit which included WellPoint's Specialty Products.
Beer is co-chair of the Teach for America New York Advisory Board and a member of the University of Cincinnati Foundation Board of Trustees. She has endowed scholarships at the University of Cincinnati where she holds a Doctor of Commercial Science, honoris causa and the University of Dayton where she holds an honorary doctorate of science, to help increase diversity in STEM careers.
Beer has been named among the CIO 100 Hall of Fame, Forbes CIO Next list, Most Influential Women in US Finance by Barron’s, the Most Powerful Women in Banking by American Banker, Top 3 Women in FinTech by FinTech Magazine and a Merit Award recipient by the Women's Bond Club. Beer has also been recognized as a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and National Association for Female Executives Women of Excellence Health Care Champion.
Beer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Dayton.
